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The INEF exists to actively develop, support, and sustain a network of high quality, comprehensive needle exchange and other harm reduction services across Ireland.
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Belfast City hospital concerned over increase of NRG-1 admissions
Posted on August 20th, 2010 No commentsBelfast City Hospital is dealing with a “worrying” increase in the number of people taking the recently banned drug NRG-1.
The party drug — dubbed the ‘Devil’s powder’ and said to be 13 times stronger than cocaine and more addictive than heroin — was made illegal only last month but the hospital say the number of admissions as a direct result of the drug has gone up.
Study Examines HIV-Positive Patients’ Death Risk At CD4 Counts Above 350
Posted on July 19th, 2010 No comments“Having HIV appears to be associated with a greater risk of death, even when the immune system is relatively robust and patients have not started treatment,” according to a study published Friday in the Lancet,
Chemist is ready to exploit loopholes in the law to flood Britain with new “legal highs”
Posted on July 16th, 2010 No commentsA Scottish chemist operating from Belgium has said he is ready to exploit loopholes in the law to flood Britain with new “legal highs” that are four times stronger than crack cocaine.
Warning ‘second wave’ of legal highs on the way
Posted on July 8th, 2010 No commentsThe damage caused by head shop drugs is likely to get worse as a “second wave” looks set to hit the country, an emergency consultant has warned.
Una Geary, emergency consultant at St James’s Hospital in Dublin, said emergency departments were only seeing the “most extreme tip of the iceberg” in terms of the scale of the problem.
INEF launches FaceBook Group
Posted on July 5th, 2010 No commentsDue to requests the INEF have launched a new FaceBook Group.
Ireland fifth for cocaine-related deaths in Europe
Posted on June 25th, 2010 No commentsIRELAND has the fifth-highest number of cocaine-related drug deaths out of 22 European countries, according to a UN report.
The UN’s drugs chief said people snorting cocaine in Europe were destroying the “pristine forests” of the Andes and “corrupting governments” in West Africa.
Naphyrone - NRG-1 - Chemistry Behind The Headlines
Posted on June 19th, 2010 No commentsBATCH ANALYSIS SUMMARY REPORT NRG-1
Posted on June 14th, 2010 No commentsFollowing the amendment of the UK Misuse of Drugs Act in April 2010, which made a majority of the derivativesof cathinone class B controlled substances, a number of new products emerged on the market within weeks. Acharacteristic feature of this new wave of ‘legal highs’ is that they have been marketed under brand names,often with no indication at all given as to the actual composition of the substance. It has become clear that evensome of the distributors are unaware of what their products contain, as some of the claimed compositions forthese substances have ranged from spurious to outright illogical.
Elizabeth Pisani “Sex, drugs and HIV - let’s get rational”
Posted on April 7th, 2010 No commentsReport highlights ‘drugs problem’ at HMP Durham
Posted on March 26th, 2010 No commentsDrug abuse continues to be a serious problem at one of the North East’s prisons, inspectors have concluded.
One in four inmates at HMP Durham is using illicit drugs, the HM Inspectorate of Prisons said following an unannounced visit in October. Arrangements for prisoners on the heroin substitute methadone are also “unsatisfactory” said the report.
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